International Money and Common Currencies in Historical Perspective

Monetary Unions and Hard Pegs: Effects on Trade, Financial Development, and Stability

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dwyer, Gerald P ^a   Lothian, James R ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA   (United States)

^b FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancient and medieval history; Characteristics of universal money; Common moneys; Monetary theory; Nonetary history

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920024066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271402.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

References (36)

1. Ashton, T. S. (1955). An Economic History of England: The 18th Century. New York: Barnes and Noble.
2. Auernheimer, L. (1974). "The Honest Government's Guide to the Revenue from Money Creation." Journal of Political Economy, 82 (May-June): 598-606.
3. Barro, R. J. and Gordon, D. B. (1983). "A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model." Journal of Political Economy, 91 (August): 589-610.
4. Bordo, M. D. (1993). "The Bretton Woods International Monetary System: A Historical Overview." In Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen (eds.), A Retrospective on the Bretton Woods System. University of Chicago Press for the NBER, pp. 3-104.
5. Bordo, M. D. and Jonung, L. (2000). Lessons for EMU from the History of Monetary Unions. London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
6. Chown, J. F. (1994). The History of Money from AD 800. London: Routledge.
7. Cipolla, C. M. (1967). Money, Prices, and Civilization in the Mediterranean World, Fifth to Seventeenth Century. New York: Gordian Press.
8. Cohen, B. J. (1971). The Future of Sterling as an International Currency. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press.
9. Cohen, B. J. (1998). The Geography of Money. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
10. Darby, M., Lothian, J. R., and Gandolfi, A. E., Stockman, A. C., Schwartz, A. J. (1983). The International Transmission of Inflation. University of Chicago Press for the NBER.
11. Dehing, Pit and 't Hart, M. (1997). "Linking the Fortunes: Currency and Banking, 1550-1800." In Marjolein 't Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden (eds.), A Financial History of the Netherlands. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-63.
12. De Roover, R. (1974). "Business, Banking, and Economic Thought in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe." University of Chicago Press, 1974 (collected papers edited by J. Kirshner).
13. Einzig, P. (1970). The History of Foreign Exchange, 2nd edn. London:Macmillan.
14. Gilson, E. (1991). The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy. University of Notre Dame Press.
15. Hayek, F. A. (1978a). The Denationalization of Money: An Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Current Currencies. London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
16. Hayek, F. A. (1978b). "The Result of Human Action not of Human Design." In F. A. Hayek (ed.), Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and the History of Ideas. University of Chicago Press.
17. Hayek, F. A. (1995). The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477-1806. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
18. Jonker, J. (1997). "The Alternative Road to Modernity: Banking and Currency, 1814-1914." In Marjolein 't Hart, Joost Jonker, and Jan Luiten van Zanden (eds.), A Financial History of the Netherlands. Cambridge and New York:Cambridge University Press, pp. 94-123.
19. Kiyotaki, N. and Wright, R. (1989). "On Money as a Medium of Exchange." Journal of Political Economy, 97 (August): 927-54.
20. Lopez, R. S. (1951). "The Dollar of the Middle Ages." Journal of Economic History, 11 (Summer): 209-34.
21. Lothian, J. R. (2002). "Exchange Rates." Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Matsuyama, K., Kiyotaki, N., and Matsui, A. (1993). "Toward a Theory of International Currency." Review of Economic Studies, 60 (April): 283-307.
23. McCusker, J. J. (1978). Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775. A Handbook. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture.
24. Menger, C. (1892). "On the Origins of Money." Economic Journal, 2 (June):239-55.
25. Neal, L. (1990). The Rise of Financial Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
26. Rolnick, A. J., Velde, F. R., and Weber, W. E. (1996). "The Debasement Puzzle:An Essay in Medieval Monetary History." Journal of Economic History, 56 (December): 789-808.
27. Sargent, T. J. (1999). The Conquest of American Inflation. Princeton University Press.
28. Schumpeter, J. A. (1954). History of Economic Analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.
29. Selgin, G. (1994). "On Ensuring the Acceptability of a New Fiat Money." Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 26 (November): 808-26.
30. Spufford, P. (1984). "Le rôle de la monnaie dans le révolution commericiale du xiiie siècle." In J. Day (ed.) Etudes d'histoire monétaire. Lille: Presses universitaires de Lille.
31. Spufford, P. (1988). Money and its Use in Medieval Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
32. Sussman, N. (1993). "Debasements, Royal Revenues, and Inflation in France During the Hundred Years' War 1415-1422." Journal of Economic History, 53 (March): 44-70.
33. Tavlas, G. S. (1998). "The International Use of Currencies: The U.S. Dollar and the Euro." Finance & Development, 35 (June): 46-9.
34. Trejos, A. and Wright, R. (1995). "Search, Bargaining, Money, and Prices." Journal of Political Economy, 103 (February): 118-41.
35. Trejos, A. and Wright, R. (1996). "Search-Theoretic Models of International Currency." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 78 (May/June): 117-32.
36. Velde, F. R., Weber, W. E., and Wright, R. (1999). "A Model of Commodity Money, with Applications to Gresham's Law and the Debasement Puzzle." Review of Economic Dynamics, 2 (January): 291-323.